#TheHeartofBarwonHealth
Para Paheer, ICU technician - "I’m working as an intensive care unit technician, assisting nurses with equipment. We set it up, clean it and make sure it’s working for whoever needs to use it. I first got a job as a domestic service housekeeper in ICU, and then later...

Barwon Health’s volunteer Patient Transport Service 🚗 drives nearly 1000 patients each month to and from their medical appointments. They also take residents and community health clients on more than 300 outings per month.
To support this vital patient service, Volunteer Services are hosting a raffle with four amazing prize...

Congratulations to our StaffCare Manager, Dr Rudi Gasser, who was yesterday awarded the Geelong #Kokoda Youth Program’s @blue_ribbon_foundation Community Award, for his medical work with the youth program. Rudi’s involvement in the program is to provide comprehensive travel health support, starting with health checks to determine medical fitness to undertake...

Barwon Health was honoured to receive a VICNISS Certificate of Excellence in acknowledgement of our staff influenza vaccination rate in 2017.
This year, 82.9% of Barwon Health workers voluntarily received the influenza vaccination. This was the third highest rate in Victoria for a comparable hospital or health service with more...

Honoured to have Minister for Health @jillhennessymp onsite this morning to officially open the new $6.38 million surgical hub at University Hospital Geelong.
Completed in mid-October, the 22-month project in the old ICU space was made possible with funding from the Department of Health and Human Services and the combined...

Congratulations to all entrants in the annual Barwon Health Quality Awards 🏆 presented last week in the HERB Lecture Theatre. Each year staff are invited to nominate initiatives and individuals for an award, which are an important way of recognising excellence in safety, quality care. This year saw an addition...